Plate Tectonics Timeline

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Plate Tectonics Web project Timeline - Report is due on Wednesday October 22, 2008

Here is a tentative schedule for your report. You may work ahead of schedule, but I suggest that you do not fall behind. Good luck!
Final product will be a seven plus page report. One page at a time!

October 8 - 14

Part 1 one or two pages (including drawing of Earth’s layers)

Go to http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/dynamic.html

Read and summarize:
  • ”Plate Tectonics and People? ”
  • ”Some Unanswered Questions? ”
  • Write about and be prepared to discuss Mount Pinatubo, and Earths Layers.
  • Illustrate and label all Earth’s layers and define the key characteristics of each.

October 8-14

Part 2 One to two pages including illustrations

http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es0804/es0804page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization Use this site to see the actual simulation of each of the three types of boundary collisions.
Then go to http://scign.jpl.nasa.gov/learn/plate4.htm
Answer these questions:
  • What happens at a divergent boundary?
  • What happens when tectonic plates scrape past each other at Transform Boundaries? What happens at convergent boundaries?
  • What do you find most intriguing about these events?
  • Write down and illustrate what you learned about these types of boundaries
  • Be prepared to sequence the events of each (continental-continental collision, oceanic-continental collision, and oceanic-oceanic plate collision) in class discussion.

October 14 -16

Part 3 One to two paragraphs

http://www.visionlearning.com/library/module_viewer.php?mid=65
  • Scroll down to the article on ”Driving the Drift? ”.
  • Summarize the article
  • What geologist was credited for this finding?
  • Be prepared to discuss and share your reasoning in class.

Part 4 two to four paragraphs

http://www.discoverourearth.org/student/tectonics/continental_drift.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/historical.html

  • Recreate Pangaea
  • Write about the naturalist who is credited with the theory of continental drift?
  • What is the difference between the theory of seafloor spreading and continental drift?

October 16 - 20

Part 5 one to two pages

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/glossary.php
http://www.visionlearning.com/library/flash_viewer.php?oid=1683

Use your colored pencils and illustrate what happens with each of the following terms:
Be prepared to communicate these terms to others.

October 21

Part 6

Visit any of the links at http://www.mines.edu/fs_home/enelson/tectonic.html (there are several here that don’t work so keep trying) (http://www.marine-geo.org/rmbs/ , http://www.seismo.unr.edu/index.html , http://www.uh.edu/~jbutler/anon/quakes.html ),
  • Bring back any strategies that you discovered for both finding information and for critically thinking about the information you gathered at Tectonics Links.
  • Write about what you have learned about convection currents and the effect it has had on our continents.
  • Forecast what you think could happen in the future.